Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:01:55 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Sander Janssen <s.janssen@xs4all.nl> Cc: ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Freebsd Firefox problems Message-ID: <4D84D373.7060509@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4D84CDB9.5080507@xs4all.nl> References: <4C37C2D7.3000504@xs4all.nl> <4C382326.4090109@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4D84CDB9.5080507@xs4all.nl>
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On 03/19/11 16:37, Sander Janssen wrote: > I have finally managed to solve this issue. Upgrading to 8.2 didn't > solve anything. But after I installed ccache I decided to recompile all > my installed ports in the hope that it solved my problems. After > recompiling all my ports (1000 ports, including openoffice). The problem > still persisted. > > But after reading another thread I removed pulse audio support from > libcanberra and this solved the problem. I first removed gstreamer > support as well but this does not cause the problem. > > Regards, > Sander > my installation of libcanberra doesn't have pulse-audio enabled anymore since enabling pulse-audio support in several other libs and apps resulted in problems updating via portmaster (as far as I can recall). At this very moment, my firefox seems to be ok. Regards, Oliver > > On 07/10/10 09:37, Hartmann, O. wrote: >> On 07/10/10 02:46, Sander Janssen wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am currently having the same problems you were having with firefox >>> 3.6 on FreeBSD in February (I found the threads on the Freebsd-Ports >>> mailing list). The thread doesn't seem to come up with an answer and I >>> am wondering if you managed to solve the problem? >>> >>> I am talking about firefox crashing when you use a context menu. I >>> have tried a portupgrade -Rf firefox to try to recompile every depency >>> but nothing has any effect. In my case thunderbird works correctly. >>> >>> Any information would be useful. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Sander >> >> Hello. >> I have still this obscure problems. When "gettext" was updated and we >> have had to update any dependend port, within this procedure Firefox 3.6 >> worked correctly as expected. But after the update was performed, >> everything remained as it was before. I did several times portmaster -f >> (which is the same as -R with portupgrade) to build every necessary >> port, but with no effect. I also performed the one-day-taking gettext >> update and, additionaly, I recompiled every port (nearly 1000 on my >> systems). No effect. >> When delegating the client firefox to another X terminal, say to my >> workstation at home (login with ssh -Y for X11 portforwarding), no >> problems occur, so I guess the problem is riggered by X11 on the local >> machine and especially with the ATI radeonhd driver (which does not work >> correctly on many boxes and with low end Radeon HD 46XX or 47XX cards). >> I have no idea. I use Opera for now on the machine in question. >> >> Regards, >> Oliver >> >
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